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The Learning Family: Bringing the Five Disciplines Home
Roger and his wife June had been struggling with differing views about how to bring up their children. Recently, Roger attended a program about…
Comfort Zones
It’s a good thing we have comfort zones, those ways of acting and thinking that do not cause us stress or require much thought.
Operational Thinking
The first three systems thinking skills help you establish an extensive (breadth) and intensive (depth) boundary for your mental or computer-based model. The next…
Behavior Over Time Diagrams: Seeing Dynamic Interrelationships
An old Winnie the Pooh cartoon sketch shows Christopher Robin dragging Edward the Bear down a set of stairs by one arm, while the…
Empowering Multigenerational Collaboration in the Workplace
Today’s workforce represents a broad range of age groups. As a result of college internships, modern healthcare, antidiscrimination laws, and a plethora of lifestyle…
Transforming the Character of a Corporation
We judge others by what they do; we judge ourselves by our intentions.” “What you do thunders so loud, I can’t hear what you…
Liberating Structures: A New Pattern Language for Engagement
“We change the culture by changing the nature of conversation. It’s about choosing conversations that have the power to create the future.” — Peter…
People in Context, Part II
The first part of this article, which appeared in the previous issue of The Systems Thinker (May 2010, Vol. 21 N. 4), introduced the “people-in-context”…
Leveraging Organizational Readiness for Change
Leaders like to think that good planning and solid management are the keys to successful change. Yet too often their best efforts, combining their…
Confessions of a Recovering Knower
Hi, my name is Brian and I am a recovering knower. But for the grace of God, and the disciplines of organizational learning, I…